Wisconsin Weather Radar

Local Weather Radar Sites in Wisconsin

About Weather Radar

Radar is an acronym that stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. A weather radar consists of a
parabolic dish (it looks like a satellite dish) encased in a protective dome and mounted on a tower
of up to five stories tall. About 150 NEXRAD (NEXt generation of weather RADar) Doppler radars were
installed throughout the U.S. in the 1990s. The radar itself does not delineate between rain and
snow but AccuWeather's proprietary algorithms do, based on atmospheric conditions. The state-level
Snow/Ice/Rain (Standard) radar images update every 5 minutes on AccuWeather.com Premium, which also
gives access to longer loops of radar data. The exclusive AccuWeather.com StormTimer(tm) plots the
expected movement of significant storms over the next hour, and also gives access to storm details
like hail and rotation. AccuWeather.com RadarPlus offers an interactive weather experience with
street-level radar, satellite and lightning data, as well as PredictiveRadar which moves the
current radar picture 4 hours into the future.